Transmigrator Competition

In the yard of Nursery 9, the home of Squad 9, there was a giant tree of an almost extinct species. According to reports, it was meant to be cut down during the construction of the place, as the member of the Stygian clan were unworthy of such a rare tree. However, because these trees were the symbol of the Nell family, not only the elders but also the younger members of the family protested against it.

Right now, in the middle of the night, a young boy was siting in one of its branches.

"The nights are getting colder, I suppose winter is coming."

Letting out that remark, the boy shifted his attention to the floating orange screen.

[

Status:

Name: Nio/Nioo/9-1-1/Alex

Age: 7 (25)

Cultivation:Body Tempering Stage 0

Health : Good

PHY: 12

SPE: 10

END: 15

INT: 25

CON: 16

Credits: 341 points

[Access Shop]

[Anime Stream]

[Map]

[Do you wish to rate this System? Click Here] 

]

Two years had passed since Martial Art Classes had started, as well as the Body Development ones. Nio, had become a lot stronger, not only in raw stats but in martial arts.

Classes hadn't changed much, the teachers were still cruel and strict. The difference was, in martial arts class, Markus was no longer the one beating people up. Now, it was them doing it.

This had started around a month ago, and it was meant to last until the end of the classes. Normally, Nio would just grit his teeth and ignore this and endure much like he had been doing before.

However, today 9-0-1, someone he saw as a little sister was paired with him to spar. He was forced to go all out and to not hesitate. She was now hospitalized, and it would take her three weeks to recover.

*Sigh*

Sighing, Nio averted his attention to another screen.

[

Cursed Energy Control -> 1 / 100]

Chakra Control-> 50/100

]

His control exercises had paid off. He could now reinforce his body with Chakra, as well as walking in walls and water, besides creating chakra strings. For Cursed Energy, though, he could only make it flow through his body at will now, although he still had problems in using all the Cursed Energy he had. Beside other problems like energy expenditure and how sometimes he failed to get a hold of cursed energy.

It was getting stressful.

Martial Arts class and Body Development class will remain for three more years, until they reach ten years of age.

Who knows how many changes to the program they will add, just to make sure they were not potential traitors. As if a seven-year-old could do such a thing.

Then again, let alone Nio, no one in Squad 9 was normal. Brutality was a common in their lives, death and violence was the norm, while things that are more common to the children outside the Stygian clan are so foreign.

Even Nio, who could remember his past life, felt himself losing the concept of what some things like helping, playing and having fun were.

Thankfully, he was able to find some anchors. His mother, who even though he didn't even know her name, he still loved. 9-3-1 who was his best friend in this life. 9-0-1 who was like a little sister.

He anchored himself to them, and did his best to anchor them to himself.

While they grew up together, Nio had made his best effort to teach concepts, that the Nell clan refused to teach them, to 9-3-1 and 9-0-1. Lately he was even thinking of give them names much like himself. Although, things would be awkward for a while.

Recently, Nio had been researching about the area around Squad 9's home. Such information was quite sensitive, even more than some details about the Nell family that would normally be only known to direct members of the family and unknown to even their vessel's and less accomplished members.

Giving information about the surroundings to a member of the Stygian Clan, was a risky move. Who knows what they will do with that? Run away? Set up traps?

No matter how much they thought about it, they would never have guessed Nio's reason behind it.

To leave temporarily during the night to find and fight real opponents and by result gaining battle experience as well as being more in tune with negative emotions that were born out of combat, in order to have better control over his cursed energy.

He had made several preparations for his eventual outing. Creating makeshift equipment by using cleaning utensil of the maids that were thrown away and some materials that he found in the playground.

He didn't have anything substantial, tough. He had made a cloak to hide his features. Not only that, but he had made a fragile spear, made with a broom and a knife he had stolen. He had made a scarf to hide his lower face with his old clothes that were thrown away.

He was prepared, he had learned martial arts, his body had been trained by a few levels above his own peers, he had practiced his control over both power systems he got his hands on, and he had made preparations in order to everything to go smoothly.

Everything that had been left was a good knowledge about the area. He was forced to spend four whole months to save enough merits to be allowed such information.

And finally, he found such info on his hands, right now.

He had been studying it relentlessly without gathering much attention.

The surroundings of their home were quite simple.

A vast plain painted in green. A few kilometers north, there was a forest with countless beasts, who weren't frequently hunted.

'A good hunting spot.' Nio concluded.

There wasn't much on how where the defenses of the place, but Nio had been living in this place for seven years, and as someone who decided that he had to leave almost immediately, his eyes had always been attentive to certain details.

Like the different faces on the gates on which day of the week. How late were his instructors and in what pattern.

He just needed some more time, not only to confirm some of the hypothesis, but also to make sure that no new pattern were implemented.

For now, his plans were already sketched.

At the end of the weak there was a change in guards at the entrance, in order to not force the instructors to be late at the start of the weak that change occurred at the end of the day in the last day of the week, forcing the instructors to leave earlier than usual.

Therefore, the time to leave was during the moment where the instructor leaves, the guards are changing shifts leaving a gap for Nio to explore.

But then there was another problem, what about coming back? He couldn't just wait a week for another change in guard shifts.

That's where an interesting piece of news was discovered by Nio.

Before being granted a book with any type of sensible information, the members of the Nell family read the book first and then censored parts that deemed to be sensible and therefore prohibited.

Luckily, Nio knew where they performed those actions. So when they were censoring the information about the surroundings that he requested he heard everything he could about the censored information.

And that included the fact that there was a gigantic cave system below them. Stretching from the nursery to the forest.

Using the censored information, Nio was able to guess some places where there was possibly an entrance to this cave system. After that, it was a gamble. Could he find the entrance to the cave system? Could he find his way through the caves and comeback to the nursery without alerting anyone?

He needed to carefully consider this. If he failed, he would be killed for betrayal.

Should he risk everything on this?

What about his mother, his best friend and his little sister like figure?

If he was gone, what about them?

Nio shook his head a couple of times. He shouldn't think so negatively. He would do this. His survival was at cost, after all. Who knew what the other transmigrator were doing right now, what were they learning, what had they accomplished? He needed to start moving.

Being reincarnated allowed him to have a background, he was not someone that appeared out of nowhere, it was easier to blend in as well as gather backing and trust of the natives of the worlds he would visit.

Should he dedicate the first outing to simply finding the entrance of the cave system? He didn't know how much time he would spend just looking for it, so to make sure he didn't risk arriving late and therefore being discovered, maybe the most safe option would be for him to dedicate the time of his first outing interily to finding the entrance of the system of caves below.

He should also find a way to map the area to make sure he didn't forget where the entrance was.

"Maybe, I need some more preparations?"

Nio knew he couldn't prepare more than he already did, was preparing to prepare.

Looking at the makeshift calendar he had drawn, he sighed.

"Tomorrow night, that's the day."